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He Served and Protected

The former commissioner says the mayor won City Hall by propagating a false narrative that the police were discriminating by race.

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Edward Kosner

Sept. 8, 2015 12:00 a.m. ET

Is New York under “progressive” Mayor Bill de Blasio descending into the scarifying old days of rampant murder and rape, with homeless people using the streets as toilets and Times Square reverting to a casbah of hustlers and worse? Or are the ingenious tabloids with their startling front pages of urinating vagrants and topless painted ladies stampeding New Yorkers into a false sense of insecurity?

Ray Kelly, the Irish bulldog who served as police commissioner longer than any top cop in New York City history, diplomatically...